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Piotr Biel
Piotr is a former Percona employee. He helped build two of Polandâ™s largest internet portals, serving billions of pageviews a month. In addition to MySQL, Piotr has extensive knowledge of other technologies such as IBM AIX, Solaris, enterprise-level networking, advanced virtualization techniques, and Oracle, including RAC clusters.

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